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18 Cards in this Set
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Abolition |
Call to Outlaw Slavery |
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Women & Social Causes of the 2nd Great Awakening |
Women's rights are advocated for. Educational institutions for women are put into place. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Started his own paper delivering main message that slaves should be freed. |
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David Walker |
Free black man who encouraged African Americans to fight for freedom. |
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Frederick Douglass |
Born into slavery. His slave owner's wife taught him to read and write. He became intelligent and an outspoken critic against slavery. |
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Nat Turner |
Saw eclipse as sign from God. Marched with 80 men to multiple plantations brutally killing 60 white men before being captured. |
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Harriet Tubman |
Abolitionist who used underground railroads to save many slaves. |
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Gag rule |
A rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue. |
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Cult of Domesticity |
Idea that Housework and childcare are only appropriate activities for women. |
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Temperance Movement |
Prohibition of alcohol, which was caused by the large increase in drunks/alcoholics making bad decisions. |
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Manifest Destiny |
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand throughout the continent. |
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Fifty- Four Forty or Fight |
Refers to the latitude 54' 40', the northern limit of the disputed Oregon territory. |
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Empresarios |
An empresario was a person (agent) who had been granted the right to settle on Mexican land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers |
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Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Dealt with Anti-Slavery and women's rights. |
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Sarah and Angelina Grimke |
Daughters of a slave owner who spoke out for abolition. Petitioned getting signatures for congress to outlaw slavery. |
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Elizabeth Blackwell |
1st women to graduate from medical college. Later opened up infirmary for women and children. |
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Mary Lyon |
Founder pf Mount Holyoke College Institute for higher learning for Women. |
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Emma Willard |
Opened nation's first academically rigorous school for girls, in New York. |
